Typewriting machine



July 3, 1928.

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Patented July 3, 1928 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN WALDHEIM, OF ELIZABETH, NEW JERSEY, A SSIGNOR T0 UNDEBWOOD ELLIOTTFISHER COMPANY, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., A CORPORATION OF DELAWARE.

TYPEWRITING MACHINE Application filed June 9,

The present invention relates to an improved web or work-sheet cabinetto be used in connection with continuous billin typewritting machines,one form of w ich is shown in the patent to WVernery & Smith, No.1,132,055, granted March 16, 1915.

In a machine of this type, work-sheets or webs are used in severallayers or plies, each provided with printed forms constituting one pieceof work, which, when completed, may be torn from the continuous web.Carbon-sheets interleaved between the webs or plies are mounted on acarbon-carriage, so as to advance with the web toward the platen whiletypewriting, and so as to, be drawn back by the carbon-carriage into thesucceeding form-section of the web after the leading formsection hasbeen typed, and prior to detachment from the web of such leadingform'section.

To save time and trouble in substituting a work-web of one style forthat of another,

the carbon-sheets, as shown in United States Letters Patent to Fortin,No. 1,237,319, granted August'21, 1917 are not directly attached to thecarbon-carriage in the machine, but are attached to a plate or holderwhich is detachably secured to the carbon-carriage so that acarbon-sheet-holding plate for any set of webs, with the carbon-sheetsinterleaved therewith, may be removed as a unit from thecarbon-carriage, and another car bon-sheet-holding plate, withcarbon-sheets already interleaved with the plies of the desired set ofwebs, substituted therefor. Containers or cabinets for the several websand their respective carbon-sheet-holding plates and interleavedcarbon-sheets have heretofore been devised to provide for a feed of theweb from its container to the carbon-carriage of the typewritingmachine, when thesheet-holder shall have beenplaced on the latter. 1

The present invention has particular reference to an equipmentwhichcomprises the above-mentioned continuous billing apparatus asapplied to a bookkeepingtypewritcommonly present on the rear of bookkeeping machines. Such other support for the 1922. Serial 110. 566339.

be assured. It will be understood, however.

that the invention is not confined to use in connection withabookkeeping machine or with a machine-standof any special type.

An object of the invention is the provision of a combined holder orsupport for the carbon-carrier table, and attachment for a plurality ofweb-containers, or web-cabinet;

which combined device is supported by thetypewritingmachine-stand,independently of i316 machine itself; and alongwhich combined device the web-containers or cabinet is adjustable topermit the particular web which is to be used, to be brought to setposition with respect to the carbon-carrier table; w A further object ofthe invention is the provision of such a'combined device and of a.holder or cabinet for a plurality of web containers connected theretoand adjustable therealong, but supported on the floor, so as to bemovable as a unit with the typewriting-machine-stand.

A feature of the invention is the prov'1 sion of a runway on thecombined carriertable support and web-cabinet attachment,

along .which runway the cabinet may he other cabinet is desired to besubstituted therefor. In the preferred form of the invention.hereinafter described, the cabinet may be positioned ordetached bysimply sliding the same on or off of one end of a rail on which thecabinet is adjustable for the setting of any container thereof withrespect to the carbon-carrier table.

Other features and advantages will here inafter appear.

In the accompanying drawings,

Figure 1 is a view in side elevation, part-- ly crosssectional, showingan Underwood bookkeepingmachine, with continuous billing attachment andstand therefor, and with the combined work-box cabinet and carboncarriertable-support of the present invention connected to the stand.

Figure 2 is a view in rear elevation of the work-box cabinet andcarbon-carrier table-support shown in Figure 1.

Figure 3 is a detail View, in side elevation, of the latch for holdingthe work-box cabinet in selected position.

The frame of the bookkeeping machine is shown supported on a platform 11of a stand having uprights 12 and cross-braces 13, and having the feet14 thereof provided with rollers 15, to permit the stand with themachine and associated parts to be wheeled from place to place.

The platen 16 is revolubly mounted on an axle 17, carried by arms (notshown) forming part of a swinging frame pivoted at 19 to thecarriage-frame 20. The normal position of the platen is its full-line,Figure 1 position, but it may be swung up around the axis 19 as a pivotto permit the fan-fold webs to 'be advanced in the usual manner, for

' detachment of the leading written section and for placement of thesucceeding section thereof. The usual front and rear pressurerolls 21and 22 are provided for feeding the web with the platen. The carriageruns on a rod 23 carried by the main frame.

Attached to the carriage are brackets 24 for supporting the forward endof the carbon-carrier table 25. The brackets 24 are connected by across-piece 26 having other brackets or cars 27 thereon; and the cars 27carry the bar 28 which defines the front of the table 25. On the tableis. a carbonholder and carrier .29, adapted to move with the carbons(not shown) and with the web 30 toward the platen as the carbons and webhave their line-feed movements around the platen, and which is adaptedto be moved backward with the carbons, independently of the web, to drawthe carbons into a Sun ceeding web-section after the leading websectionhas passed around the platen. It is unnecessary here to describe indetail the entire construction of the table and associated parts,reference being made to the aforesaid United States Letters Patent toFortin, No. 1,237,319, for such description thereof as may be desired.Suffice here to say that the carbon-holder of the Fortin patentcomprises a plate 31, having secured thereto a number of clips (notshown), each of which clips engages and holds the rear end of acarbon-sheet, the several clips being stepped up, one from another, moreconveniently to enter and slide between the superposed web-plies.

In the Fortin patent, a single fan-fold web is shown; the superposedplies forming the web each being compo-ed of detachable units bearingthe same individual form or blank. Instead of the single web comprisedof fan-folded superposed sheets or strips, several single strips orwebs, as here indicated at 32 above the platen and at 33 in the lowerwork-boxes, may be employed; each of the superposed webs being composedof such detachable units.

"he table 25, near the rear thereof, has a pair of depending brackets34, each of which carries a roller 35 which rides on a rail 36,supported on brackets 37. The brackets 37 thus support the rear of thecarbon-carrier table, and the latter, by reason of the rolls 35 ridingon the rail 36, is free to have letter-feed and return movements withthe umen-carriage of the typewriting machine, to which it is connectedat its forward end.

The right and left hand brackets 37 are connected at the rear by rails38 and 3 and at the front by a bar 39 carried by arms 40 secured byscrews 41 to the brackets. The bar 39 serves as a front support for thebrackets 37 on the platform of the stand 11. and is secured to theplatform of the stand by screws 42. Each of the brackets 37 has also afront Vertical reach 43, the lower end of which is turned outwardlaterally, as shown at 44 in Figure 2, and is turned in the shape of a Uaround the corresponding rear upright 12 of the machine-stand 11. Bymeans of screws 45, the U-shaped offsets 44 of the brackets 37 are fixedto the up-- rights 12 of the machine-stand.

In assembling the brackets 37 on the stand 11, the bar 39 is firstpositioned and screwed in place. The brackets 37 are then separatelybrought to position against the outside faces of the arms 40of the bar39, with their U-shaped extensions 44 embracing the legs 12 of thestand. The screws 41 are then applied to secure the brackets to the bar39. The rear rails 38 and 38 are then set in place and secured by screws37* to the brackets 37. Thereupon the set-screws 45 are tightened to fixthe lower front portions of the brackets 37 to the legs of the stand.The setting of the bar 39 by the screws 42 determines the proper settingof the rail 36, so that the latter may be parallel to the path ofmovement of the carriage on the machine-frame.

Behind the brackets 37 is the Web-cabinet. This is shown as comprisingsix work-boxes 47 arranged in two tiers of three each. The cabinet isformed of three vertically-disposed boards 48, 49 and. 50; threerear-wall boards 53; and three ho "izontal floor-sections of whichcarries two rollers and 56. i The rollers 55 engage the "rails 38 and 58at the front thereof, and the rollers 56 engage these rails at the rearthereof. The rails38 and 38 therefore serve not only to connect thecabinet to the brackets 37, but serve also as runways on which thecabinet may he slid to the right or left tobring either the left hand orthe righthand tier of work-boxes into position for the feeding of awebtherefrom to the carbon-carrier table. In Figure 2, the cabinet isthrown to the right to bring the left-hand tier of work-boxes intocentered position with respect to the carboncarrier table.

For holding the web-cabinet in selected centered position for one or theother tier of work-boxes, a latch is provided. As shown in Figure 3,this latch comprises a dog 57 pivoted at 58 to the outer face of theleft-hand wall 50 of the cabinet. According to the position of thecabinet, the nose 59 of the 'dog 57 is adapted to enter one or the otherof two notches 60 and 61 in the upper edge of the rail 38. The notch 60defines the position of the cabinet for use of webs in the right-handFigure 2 tier of work-boxes, and the notch61 the position of the cabinetfor use of webs in the left'hand Figure 2 tier of workboxes. Aleaf-spring 62, hearing on the upper edge of the dog 57, causes the dogautomatically to enter one or the other of the notches 60 and 61 whenthe cabinet. has been slid to bring the dog into registration with suchnotch; and holds the dog in the notch against accidental displacement. Afinger-piece 63 serves to lift.

the dog from thenotches in the rail against the action of the spring 62.A stop 64 on the end of the rail 38 prevents the cabinet from beingoverthrown or displaced from the rail when moved to the left. Thecabinet may, however, be entirely removed from the brackets 37 by beingslid off the righthand ends of the rails 38 and 38, Figure 3.

The several multi-ply webs in the different work-boxes in the cabinetmay, together with their interleaved carbons and attachedcarbon-holders, be substituted one for another on the carbon-carriertable, in a manner well understood in the art. In the drawings, the webin use is that which is being fed from the upper left-hand Figure 2work-box, and the carbon-holder 29 for that web is in place on thecarbon-carrier table. The other webs are shown as disconnected from thecarbon-carrier'table work-boxes; the carbon-carriers 29 and 29 for suchother webs being shown as also in the work-boxes of their respectivewebs.

The web 30 in use is shown as being fed out of its box 47, over a rod65, supported on an extension 65 of the rear end of the table 25; thenceforward over the table 25 and over a rod 66, carried by the brackets 24at the rear of the platen. From the rod 66, the web is led downward,around the platen, and thence upward across a table 67 on theplaten-carriage. In order that the webs may feed freely from the lowerboxes, the boxes are offset downward andrearward, one from another, ineach tier; and the outer ends of the floors of the upper and lower boxescarry rounded rails 68 and 69, over which the webs from the lower boxesmay slide without. friction. The boxes have a slight forward dip inorder that the webpac-kages may not be accidentally dropped therefrom,either in the feeding of the webs or in the handling of the equipment.

It will be noted that, by reason of the connections of the cabinet tothe stand, and by reason of the casters on which the cabinet rides, thestand, with the carbon-carrier table and work-piece cabinet, mayberolled as a unit from place to place.

It will also be noted that, in supporting the carbon-carrier table onthe brackets 37, instead of on the machine-frame, and in so shaping thebrackets 37 to provide considerable clearance between the same and themachine-frame, ample space is allowed for the attachments (not shown),but usually present on the rear of the bookkeeping machine, and ampleprovision is made for easy access to such attachments.

Variations may be resorted to within the scope of the invention, andportions of the improvements may be used without others.

Having thus described my invention, I claim:

1. The combination of a stand for a typewriting machine, brackets havingvertical reaches secured on the rear of the stand and provided with armsinclined in a rearward and downward direction from the rear of thestand, horizontal rails one spaced above the other and both laid acrossthe arms and connecting them together, a work-web-holder-cabinet,including tiers of work-webholders, and brackets on the cabinetadjustably engaging said rails for lateral adjustment of the cabinet onthe rails and support ing the cabinet in a forwardly and upwardlyinclined position, whereby the tiers may be brought. selectively invertical register with the carriage of a typewriting machine supportedin operative position on the stand.

2. The combination of a stand for a typewriting machine, brackets havingvertical reaches and secured to the stand and provided with armsinclined in a rearward and its downward direction from the rear of thestand, horizontal rails one spaced above the other and both laid acrosssaid inclined arms and connecting them together, a forwardlyinclinedwork-web-holder-cabinet, including tiers of work-web-holders, bracketson said cabinet adjustably engaging said top and bottom rails forlateral adjustment of the cabinet on the rails, whereby the tiers

